Hey everyone! I've been a ShopBot user for a number of years now. You may have seen some of my work here that I've posted from time to time. I you haven't you can check out some of it at www.digitallyfabbed.com.
Going from design to actually cutting files can be tricky as you know. It's been my belief for years that one spends a lot of time thinking about how something will be made when they design it. They're forced to "re-explain" a lot of that design intent again to make toolpaths for the thing they they've carefully designed.
What if you CAM software just understood what you were trying to? Imagine if all of your toolpaths could be automatically generated from a 3D model you imported? This is something I've wanted to do for a long time.
To solve this problem I've built some software and I'd like to share it with you all. Here's a quick, unscripted demo of that software in action:
YouTube Demo
As you can see you can now take a SketchUp model and automatically generate the toolpaths you need directly using VCarve or Aspire. You no longer need to spend a lot of time re-working your 3D model for export, nor do you need to spend a lot of time cleaning up vectors in Vectric.
Our intent is to get you from your 3D model to ready to cut in just a few minutes.
This is brand new software and I'm reaching out to you all to ask you to come help us test it.
We'll be sending out a beta test in a few weeks and would love to have as many of you as possible on board.
If you're interested, sign up at www.getfabber.com and we'll send you the beta.
Let me know if you have any questions in the mean time.